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Major Ops Vendors Endorse SFTR Reporting via GTR

October 12, 2018 by Eugene Grygo

Major Ops Vendors Endorse SFTR Reporting via GTR

The DTCC has scored the support of major operations IT and service providers as they have agreed to link their Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) reporting solutions to the DTCC’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) in a bid for a streamlined workflow, officials say. The DTCC has new partnerships with Broadridge Financial Solutions, FIS Global, Murex,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Data Management, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Governance, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, KYC, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: Brian Lynch, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Chris Childs, collateral, David Lewis, DTCC, ESMA, Financial Stability Board, FIS Global, FSB, Maroun Edde, Murex, RegTek.Solutions, Securities Financing Transactions Regulation, SFTR, SimCorp

Crypto-Assets Have Big Ops & IT Risks: FSB

October 12, 2018 by Eugene Grygo

Crypto-Assets Have Big Ops & IT Risks: FSB

The Financial Stability Board (FSB), a regulatory and policy go-between for national financial authorities and standard-setting bodies, has published a risk assessment of “crypto-assets and their markets,” and, among other factors, has identified key IT, operational and cyber-security pitfalls. In a new report on the subject, “Crypto-asset markets: Potential channels for future financial stability implications,”… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, General Interest, Governance, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Standards, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Regulation & Compliance, Cybersecurity, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: crypto-assets, cryptocurrency, Financial Stability Board, FSB, investment firms, IT, Mark Carney, Ops risks, vigilant monitoring

Blockchain’s Great Promise Faces Great Hurdles

April 20, 2016 by Louis Chunovic

The distributed ledger, or blockchain, as today’s hot financial services technology is also known, may lead to an Internet of Value. But first, important issues have to be resolved. So says Lael Brainard, one of the Federal Reserve’s seven governors. In a recent speech entitled “The Use of Distributed Ledger Technologies in Payment, Clearing, and… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Clearing, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Regulation & Compliance Tagged With: blockchain, clearing, Clearing and Settlement, collateral management, compliance, counterparty risk, derivatives, disruptive technology, distributed-ledger technology, Financial Stability Board, governance, Lael Brainard, Post-Trade Processing, settlement, transparency

Lack of Global Standards Impedes Trade Repositories: ESMA Report

February 11, 2016 by Lynn Strongin Dodds

The lack of global standards in the trade repository space (TR) could hinder the repository process, a finding of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in its recently published 55-page 2016 annual report, which outlines its supervisory priorities for credit ratings agency (CRA) governance as well as the quality and data access for TRs…. Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Risk Management, Governance, FinTech Trends, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Compliance Tagged With: Committee of Payments and Market Infrastructures, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, ESMA, European Market Infrastructure Regulation, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Financial Stability Board, Fitch Ratings, governance, harmonization, Legal Entity Identifiers, LEIs, Linedata, Moody’s, OTC derivatives, Sapient GLobal Markets, Standard & Poor's, Standards, trade repository, Unique Product Identifiers, Unique Trade Indentifiers, UPIs, UTIs

FSB’s Capital Requirements Target ‘Too Big to Fail’

November 10, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

The Financial Stability Board (FSB), the six-year-old international body created in response to the Great Recession, has issued requirements intended to keep “systemically important” banks solvent particularly during crisis in an effort to prevent firms that are “too big to fail” and have to be bailed out via government funds. The financial requirements for banks… Read More >>

Filed Under: Operational Risk, Governance, Regulation & Compliance Tagged With: banks, Basel III, BIS, Bqank for International Settlements, capital requirement, Financial Stability Board, FSB, G-SIBs, operational risk, regulation, Too big to fail, total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC)

GLEIF Takes Charge of the LEI Effort

October 21, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Editor’s note: The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the body overseeing the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System, has taken center stage in the effort to promote the usage of the LEI standard. In fact, GLEIF has just launched the Global LEI Index, “a golden copy of all past and current LEI records including… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Securities Operations, Data Management, Industry News, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, General Interest, Governance, FinTech Trends, Standards, Opinion, Q&As, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Industry News Tagged With: compliance, data management, data quality, Financial Stability Board, FSA, GLEIF, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, governance, LEIs, operational risk, reference data, risk management, Standards, Stephan Wolf

It’s a Long Road to Nirvana

September 5, 2013 by Eugene Grygo

The buy side is a long way from an operational efficiency Nirvana when it comes to over-the-counter derivatives and operational data management. A recent survey finds that 82% of 135 North American executives polled are relying on error-prone workarounds for cleared and executed OTC trading. Another survey says firms are still battling data silos and… Read More >>

Filed Under: Minding the Gap Tagged With: CFTC, Eugene Grygo, Financial Stability Board, LEI, Minding the Gap. Simcorp, opreational efficiency, OTC reforms

FSB Reports Progress on OTC Reform as SWIFT Debuts BIC-to-LEI Mapping

September 3, 2013 by Eugene Grygo

FSB Reports ‘Substantial Progress’ for OTC Reforms The Financial Stability Board reports that “substantial progress” is being made via standard-setting bodies, national and regional authorities and market participants toward meeting the goals of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives reforms set by G20 Leaders four years ago. However, the FSB would like to see greater acceptance of centralized… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, General Interest, FinTech Trends, Standards, Regulatory Compliance, Industry News Tagged With: eFront, Financial Stability Board, FINRA, International Securities Exchange, ISITC, LEI, Moscow Exchange, OTC, SimCorp, SWIFT

The LEI Standard and Global Acceptance

May 31, 2012 by Eugene Grygo

The push for a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) standard has just taken two giant steps forward. It has the approval of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and ISO has just published the blueprint in the form of the ISO 17442 standard. While these are remarkable achievements, there is a potential pitfall ahead in getting the… Read More >>

Filed Under: Minding the Gap Tagged With: Financial Stability Board, LEI

LEI at a Crossroads

May 9, 2012 by Eugene Grygo

In an eleventh hour move, a key panel of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) is pushing for the removal of the registration authority from the proposed standard for legal entity identifiers (LEIs). This leaves the SWIFT financial messaging cooperative, a backer of the LEI effort, without a clear role. Undaunted, SWIFT says it’s a strong… Read More >>

Filed Under: General Interest, FinTech Trends, Standards, Industry News Tagged With: Aite, CFTC, DTCC, Financial Stability Board, LEI, SWIFT

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